...Hunger in America Why are so many people starving? Why are so many Americans starving? Children Starving on Side of Road 1 Every day people throw perfectly good food away without a second thought. Many people do not realize that many Americans spend most of their days starving or without food. In 2012, 49 million people did not have enough food in their homes; 15.9 million of them were children (“Hunger”). Hunger is not just in the third world countries, it is also here in America and people need to realize this. Can we end hunger in America? Where is there the most hunger? Mississippi 20.9% Arkansas 19.7% Texas 18.4% Alabama 17.9% North Carolina 17.0% Georgia 16.9% Missouri 16.7% Nevada 16.6% Ohio 16.1% California 15.6% (“Hunger”) Americans have all the power to end hunger in America. There are so many things that people and the government can do to help. The 2014 Hunger Report has a plan to end hunger by the year 2030. This plan consists of a jobs agenda, a stronger safety net, human capital development, and public-private partnerships to help innovative community led initiatives against hunger (“Ending”). If people just help out in any way possible hunger could be stopped...
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...Do you know what hunger is? Are you knowledgeablle about what it feels like to be hungry, but not have the means to make your hunger go away? Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. 1 out of 5 = sixteen million numbers of kids in America are living in a household without consistent access to adequate food. Twenty-two million numbers of low-income children rely on free or reduced lunches for their nutritional needs on an average school day. That is one meal, out of three meals a day that provides the nutrients a persons body needs to survive. Food supplies the body with macronutrients - protein, carbohydrates, and fat that offer calories as well as play a crucial role in maintaining...
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...Hunger in America Richard W. Curtis HUM/111 – Critical and Creative Thinking Kathleen Poole October 27, 2013 Hunger in America The search engine I used was Google, in the search box, ‘cuts to food stamps’, this is just one of the many article that the search engine provided. This article helps to explain what the cuts will do to families. I’m going to show that the cuts the government is making in the food stamps program, will hurt many families. These cuts can range anywhere from 11 dollars, to 36 dollars, per family, per month! “The 2009 Recovery Act’s temporary boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits is scheduled to end on November 1, 2013, resulting in a benefit cut for every SNAP household. For families of three, the cut will be $29 a month — a total of $319 for November 2013 through September 2014, the remaining months of fiscal year 2014.[2] That’s a serious loss, especially in light of the very low amount of basic SNAP benefits. Without the Recovery Act’s boost, SNAP benefits will average less than $1.40 per person per meal in 2014. (See Table 2 for estimates of the size of the SNAP cut in each state in fiscal year 2014.) Nationally, the total cut is estimated to be $5 billion in fiscal year 2014. It seems unlikely that Congress will enact legislation to remedy this problem, as President Obama and some members of Congress have proposed. Consequently, states need to prepare for the benefit cuts — including determining how they...
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...Introduction: In his article, “5 Myths about hunger in America,” Robert Egger (2010) links hunger to obesity, malnourishment, economic and national security, as well as wastefulness, jobs and wages. He discusses the myth that hunger is thought to only exist in poor countries and points out the increasing number of American families affected by hunger. Egger (2010) goes on to describe how malnourishment and obesity are linked to hunger due to government subsidies promoting consumption of poor food choices. He focuses on the idea that though many people are getting three meals per day, they are not nutritious meals and are therefore increasing rates of obesity related illnesses and death (Egger, 2010). Egger (2010) concentrates on how the cycle of hunger in children affects learning, which increases school dropout rates, reduces employment rates, thus reducing national economic security while promoting a life of crime. He connects hunger and obesity again by focusing on how a large number of young adults are too obese to join the military, consequently decreasing the number of military eligible citizens and therefore decreasing national security. Through discussion regarding how federal programs provide poor children with meals at school, Egger (2010) describes that single working mothers and the elderly are most likely to have to prioritize other costs and needs over feeding themselves. Finally, Egger (2010) focuses on the success of his own programs, for-profit businesses...
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...Child Hunger in America Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation A) Write a rationale for the presentation in which you do the following: Hunger is a discomfort that emerges as a result of lack of food accompanied by the desire to eat. In the United States, hunger does not take the extreme form as it is experienced in some third world countries. Instances of severe food deprivation are rare in the United States. Clinical symptoms of food deprivation are sometimes used to determine if children in a country are faced by hunger. Such symptoms include low weight in relation to body height, low height for age and wasting. Such symptoms characterize children who are starved although in the USA they are rare and when they occur they are limited. The impact of hunger as seen in the United States is usually difficult to be measured. The impacts include; tiredness, irritability, frequent headaches, frequent colds and infections. The clinical objective of measuring hunger is very difficult hence alternative methods have been deployed in both the private and public sector. The alternative measures of measuring hunger are using a person’s self-report of his/her psychological or subjective experience of hunger. Researchers may not agree on any particular definition of hunger. But for the purpose of policy making and measurement hunger is defined as taking in inadequate amount of food resulting from lack of money and resources. It can also be defined as the mental or physical condition...
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...Childhood hunger is an issue that more than 16.2 million children face sometime in their life in the US. This issue affects children in many ways like, weaker immune systems causing kids to become sick, weaker brains causing kids to poorly perform in school, and lower self-esteem. Malnutrition is one of the most common ways kids get sick and/or get life threatening diseases. Just imagine going through a twenty four hour period and only being able to eat one meal. How would you feel after just one day? There are kids in the US that experience this problem everyday of their lives. With malnutrition, these kids tend to develop a weaker immune system, which cause them to be more prone to sicknesses and/or diseases in the future. By just having...
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...In the central and southeast of Indiana alone, there are one out of eight people that deal with hunger problems. Gleaners works with around two-hundred and fifty charities to help with hunger in Indianapolis and this helps feed over two hundred and sixty thousand people. Most of these people that they serve are children’s and seniors. There is a diversity of people that they help. They serve to about sixty-six percent to white, twenty-two percent are black and six percent are Latino. Not only do they deal with people with different race but also help many people that have low wages or unemployment. There is seventy percent of the people that are served that are living or under the 100% line for poverty and more than half of the people they serve food to make less than ten thousand dollars for them annul income....
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...There are some terrific organizations out there that continuously raise awareness of the growing problem of hunger in the world. The problem is there are too many people and families who don’t make enough money to support their family and who struggle to even put food on the table. Poverty and hunger seem to be one in the same in America. But, according to FeedAmerica.org, poverty is not the only factor of food insecurity. Even people considered above the poverty line are at risk of hunger also. Research shows that unemployment is a bigger result of food insecurity as opposed to poverty among Americans. So, how should we address the issue of hunger and food insecurity? The first step is creating aware of this epic problem our society...
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...Child Hunger in America Hook Katherine Foronda has taught herself not to feel hungry until the school day has ended. It’s wasn’t that she didn’t like eating in public, or that she couldn't eat food, it was the fact that she didn’t have any food to eat or any money to buy food with. In high school she failed an English class and rather than having to retake this class she opted for an after school skills course that came with a meal and sent them home on the weekends with food. Katherine also obtained knowledge that there was a way that she could go to college, even though she couldn’t pay for it. Now that she was filled with hope and a full stomach she soon went on and founded a program that offered food support to the students in her high...
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...Introduction: I. 1 in 6 people in America face hunger. II. Hunger in the USA still exists especially after the financial crisis that hit the US. III. Investigated topic. A. Studied issue B. Done Research IV. Present effects of Hunger. V. Our quality of life and humanity is being threatened VI. Later, there will be a Q/A period. VII. Let me preview my points A. Problem- Hunger in the US B. Solution- Food banks C. Advantages (Transition: Let’s look at the problem- Hunger in the US) Body I. Statement of problem: Hunger is threatening our quality of life and humanity. A. As sited as on Feeding America website, 48.1 million Americans live in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children. B. Causes of the problem 1. Financial constraints 2. According to dosomething.org, In the US, hunger isn’t caused by a lack of food, but rather the continued prevalence of poverty. C. Effects of the problem 1. Quality of life harmed. 2. Threat to life itself, (Transition: Being aware of the causes and effects of the problem, now I’ll present you with a viable solution) II. Statement of solution: Let’s turn to donating money, food and time to food banks, such as Stop Hunger Now. A. According Stop Hunger Now website B. Details 1. They distribute meals C. Progress 1. Since their founding in 1998, they have provided over 225 million meals III. Advantages (and/or disadvantages) A. Increased life quality B. Increased social well being ...
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...through your refrigerator? Ask your parents if there is anything to eat? Usually when we are hungry, we can just go to the fridge and grab something. But what if we couldn’t? Some children and even adults deteriorate from hunger every day. These people strife to find work to pay for meals every day. We need to recognize that some people cannot reach in their fridge and just grab a snack. Adults and many children suffer from hunger every day and cannot afford to pay for food. So many children are faced with the adversities of hunger in America. According to, Feeding America.org, about 15 million children live without nutritious food. These kids are suffering because the food they need to grow simply cannot be afforded. Almost 12 million are served by Feeding America and of these millions about 4 million of them are under the age of five. These kids need to have nutritious food in order to live a flourishing life. In order to grow kids need to be able to eat enough food to help the body mature (“Feeding America”). Not only are children faced with hunger, but seniors are too. According to Feeding America.org, about 10 million seniors live...
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...anyone: Let’s be the Zero Hunger Generation World Food Day Either we build a future for all, or there will be no acceptable future for anyone: Let’s be the Zero Hunger Generation By By:Deavion Dyanta Semple By By:Deavion Dyanta Semple World Food Day World Food Day Theme: “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” Theme: “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone: 555.555.0125 Fax: 555.555.0145 E-mail address Street Address Address 2 City, ST ZIP Code Phone: 555.555.0125 Fax: 555.555.0145 E-mail address Caption describing picture or graphic. Caption describing picture or graphic. Why care about Hunger? Because the right to food is a basic human right. In a world of plenty, 805 million people, one in nine worldwide, live with chronic hunger. The costs of hunger and malnutrition fall heavily on the most vulnerable. 60% of the hungry in the world are women. Almost 5 million children under the age of 5 die of malnutrition-related causes every year 4 in 10 children in poor countries are malnourished damaging their bodies and brains Every human being has a fundamental right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. The right to adequate food is realized when every man, woman and child has the physical and economic access at all times to adequate food or means for its procurement. Because we can end hunger in our lifetime. It’s...
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...Food insecurity- (not knowing when or how the next meal will be obtained) is only one facet in the operation a Food Pantry which distributes food to various groups of people of a community. A food pantry or commonly known as a food closet, food shelves or local food bank are non-profit organizations that provide assistance to communities in need. Their main focus is to assist people of various groups to maintain a healthy life. You will be surprised to see the groups within the community affected by food insecurity. Food insecurity, defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is a limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways. Children are the number one victims of food insecurity because their family has to make the hard decisions whether to pay bills or to feed their child in a manner that is healthy. On a national average, 15.9 million children suffer from food insecurity. Food insecurity in children can hinder not only their physical health but their state of mind as well. Most children in a food insecurity environment might have a difficult experience in the performance of normal learning objectives in school. Low income families make up a very small percentage of food insecurity’s total population because most low income family has at least one working adult. Most people believe that people living in poverty, the homeless,...
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...significantly different from other countries. The concept has origins in the writings of French scholar Alexis de Toqueville who made observations during his visit to America in the nineteenth century (Mansfield, 2011). Also, Puritan John Winthrop's 1630 sermon "A Model of Christian Charity" led to the widespread belief in American folklore that the United States of America is God's country because it would become a "city upon a hill", watched by the world (John Winthrop: "A Modell of Christian Charity", 2007). Although the term does not necessarily imply superiority, many political leaders and writers have coined its use in that sense. Naturally, others hold the position that America is not really exceptional at all. In fact, after taking a cursory glance at some of the issues that our leaders are charged to correct, we can easily peel off the loftier label and replace it with a more humbling phrase. To begin, America’s hunger issue is a strong reason to reduce our loftier standing. It is not impressive that in a country without drought or famine and with enough food and money to feed the world twice over 1-in-8 of our own people struggle to put food on its table (Berg, 2009). Also, in 2010, 4.8 percent of all U.S. households (5.6 million households) accessed emergency food from a food pantry one or more times (Hunger & Poverty Statistics). Reducing these numbers will be an exceptional task. The crime problem in the U.S. also keeps the country from meriting a prouder classification...
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...Going into the Hunger Banquet I was not sure what to expect. I had heard that we would be in a certain group and we would be given food for that particular group we were in. I figured we would hear about poverty and how many people go hungry do to this, however, I wasn't sure. As a result of the Hunger Banquet I learned about hunger, poverty, and global awareness all over the world. I got to learn about these issues first hand by taking the place of someone in another country for about an hour. When I first arrived at the Banquet I had to choose from a bowl randomly, what my social standing would be. I ended up in the low income group who all sat on the floor. After talking with people, I learned everyone was from somewhere different in the world. Thus this being about poverty and hunger not just in America, but all over the world. When everyone arrived there were three groups, there was the low, middle, and high income classes. The majority of people were on the floor in the low income group. Seeing this made me truly understand the magnitude of the problem of hunger and poverty across the globe and that these people need our help....
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